Saturday 10 August 2013

Movie review - The Big Wedding (2013)

The Big Wedding (2013) / comedy

Directed and screenplay by Justin Zackham
Based on the 2006 French film Mon frère se marie written by Jean-Stéphane Bron and Karine Sudan.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Ben Barnes, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams
Trailer: click.

PLOT
Don (Robert De Niro) and his ex-wife Ellie (Diane Keaton) have three children: Lyla (Katherine Heigl), Jared (Topher Grace) and adopted son Alejandro (Ben Barnes) who is getting married to Missy O'Connor (Amanda Seyfried). While excited Alejandro and Missy are in a meeting with Father Moinighan (Robin Williams), the priest who will be marrying them, all others around them are have love related problems.


REVIEW
Like Love Actually (2003), Valentines Day (2010) and New Year's Eve (2011), this is the movie with a huge celebrity cast but it's the worst of all. Plot is meaningless, full of cliches and the jokes just fall flat. It's one of those films when you're constantly asking yourself how movies like this get made? No chemistry, no affection, no tension, no nothing! I didn't get any laughs from watching the film, any feeling or thoughts, not even a slice of entertainment at all. Just an hour and a half of wasted time. Such a disappointing, lazy effort despite star studded cast. 2/5



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